Word: reno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Eugene Luther Vidal, U. S. Director of Air Commerce; by Nina Gore Vidal, daughter of Oklahoma's blind Senator Thomas Pryor Gore; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
...first wife divorced him in Reno. He gave her a $1,000,000-a-year income and custody of their three children. Two weeks later Marshall Field married Mrs. Audrey James Coats, socialite god- daughter of King Edward VII, widow of a British Army captain. Last October she, too, flew to Reno. That same week the wifeless multimillionaire gallantly shouldered the responsibility for topnotch U. S. music by accepting the presidency of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, personally contributed large sums to its deflated exchequer. Marshall Field was active in the management of his grandfather's store only when...
Married. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 42, novelist (The Good Earth, Sons, House Divided); and her Manhattan publisher, President Richard John Walsh of John Day Co.; in Reno, after Mrs. Buck had divorced John Lossing Buck, onetime missionary, and Mr. Walsh had been divorced by Mrs. Ruth Abbott Walsh, good friend of Mrs. Buck...
Seeking Divorce. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, 42, author (The Good Earth, Sons, House Divided), onetime Presbyterian mission teacher in China, resigned because of her religious liberalism (TIME, May 8, 1933); from John Lossing Buck, onetime agricultural missionary; in Reno. She was reported planning to marry President Richard John Walsh of John Day Co., who published her Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Good Earth...
...Reno with her handsome new Danish husband sped Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow. Late that night they drove into San Francisco, put up in the bridal suite of a hotel. Next morning the Count handed newshawks typewritten slips of paper setting forth that his first name was "Court-not Curt or Kurt." He announced that he was paying off Manhattan newshawks with whom he made solemn $25 bets that he would not be married within a year. Meanwhile Barbara's father, Franklyn Laws Hutton, had followed in his private railroad car the Curleyhut. After three days of shopping...